Obits

Although it is a pretty fall day in Chilly Hollow, I am feeling sad.  I just heard last night that Stitches By the Bay in Monterey is closing.  They've sent a note to their regular customers that starting yesterday, all their in-store merchandise is 40% off.  Anything already on sale is marked down to 75% off.  They will close for good November 20th.  If you live in the area, please head over and tell them how much you appreciated their services and how much you will miss the shop.
http://stitchesbythebay.com/index.html

I also heard that the great Texas stitcher Virginia Maxwell is dead.  She is from the first great wave of needlepointers of the 20th Century and was very influential in the 1970s.  We owe Mrs. Maxwell and stitchers like her a great debt.  We would not have the great choices of tools and designs we do today without their popularizing needlepoint.  It is very sad to have a shop and a needlepointer die in the same week, isn't it?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7239906.html

Rest in Peace.

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Report from San Francisco (EGA)

Our spy at the EGA Seminar in San Francisco has reported in.  This is Vicky De Angelis speaking:

"I just love San Francisco. It must be my favorite please to be, well after San Diego that is.  Arrived here yesterday afternoon and checked into the hotel in downtown San Francisco, then quickly registered for seminar. Even though this is my first EGA seminar, I have been going to ANG seminars for quite a while. Of course you are anxious to see all the familiar faces that you have grown to know over the years. The book store and boutique was not ready for business yet, but we were able to get our tote bags and other goodies. After something to eat and a local adult beverage, it was time for bed.

My morning started out with breakfast party of Kate Gaunt, Gay Ann Rogers, Liz Lennert and myself. They all had classes, whether teaching or participating and I was off to see the sights. My tour's first stop was Monterrey Bay Aquarium in the town of Monterrey. It was built around the existing Cannery Row buildings that were built during the hey dey of sardine fishing. Most amazing place and I could have spent hours there, even though we only had a quick 90 minutes. The exhibits of the seahorses and jelly fish were my absolute favorite and I could see many a needlepoint canvas waiting to be painted of these magnificient creatures. Time was up and walked along Cannery Row, taking the sights until I got to 'Stitches by the Bay' which is the loacl needlepoint shop that June McKnight owned and still teaches there. Darling little shop and I was most fascinated that the threads were totally hung by color (not floss and pearl, but other) so all the pinks were toegther from Splendor to Sprinkles and then all the reds together. Quite a feast for the eyes! We also checked out a knitting shop around the corner that carried some very different yarns. We left and toured through the 17 mile drive on our way to Carmel where we had lunch. a little more sightseeing and then shopping.

I had a little time to see the exhibit and the merchandise for seminar that the local chapter is selling. Of course I added a frameweight to the collection, a darling pink crab! The stiteched items that were on exhibit to be judged needed to have something to do with life on the Barbery Coast. Wonderful pieces, but the show stopper which won first place, judges choice and a GPR ribbon was a small-sized corset that was displayed on a small mannequin bust.  It was a rich turquoise silk, magnficiently sewn and laced up in the back. It was adorned with lace, silk ribbon flowers and roses, beads and other trims. It really is a show stopper and deservingly so as it was so beautifully done.

Tomorrow is another sightseeing day for me and my class starts on Monday, which is a San Francisco map done on hand dyed linen with Catherine Jordan. The class was full and did go to lottery, so I consider myself lucky to have gotten it. Excuse my spelling as I am working in the lobby with my netbook and no glasses.

I will try to send more tomorrow as Sunday evening is the opening banquet...."

Thanks, Vicky!  For someone typing in the lobby without glasses, I think you did a magnificent reporting job!!!  

Please remember to keep checking Gay Ann Roger's website for photographs and brief reports.

http://www.gayannrogers.com/site_2/Home_Page.html

Here's the website for the shop Vicky had such fun at.

http://stitchesbythebay.com/


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Progress Update from Chilly Hollow

While I've been tent stitching around the wizard and working another project I can't show you, other folks have been busy. Stitch Niche in Mississippi has posted two newsletters. I always find their stitched projects inspiring.

http://www.needlepointyaya.com/newsletter/nwsindex.htm

Stitches by the Bay is doing a 3-D octopus class and one of candy corn (yumm!) dressed as a mummy for Halloween.

http://stitchesbythebay.com/classes.html

I've also posted one of Isabel's Originals canvases as my Canvas of the Day in the right hand column. Isabel's canvases are inspired by French style so the letters of the alphabet are made from French contortionists in traditional dress. The garden of the month canvases show Frenchwomen in their garden each month, with the correct plants for that time of year. They are dressed in 19th Century garb but in a modern touch, you will find zodiac symbols on their clothing. These are large and expensive designs but very beautiful. You can see them here. Click on "Hand Painted Canvases" at the bottom of the page and scroll through the gardens to find your favorite month. July is above.

http://www.isabelspocket.com/

Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

While I've been tent stitching around the wizard and working another project I can't show you, other folks have been busy. Stitch Niche in Mississippi has posted two newsletters. I always find their stitched projects inspiring.

http://www.needlepointyaya.com/newsletter/nwsindex.htm

Stitches by the Bay is doing a 3-D octopus class and one of candy corn (yumm!) dressed as a mummy for Halloween.

http://stitchesbythebay.com/classes.html

I've also posted one of Isabel's Originals canvases as my Canvas of the Day over in the right hand column. Isabel's canvases are inspired by French style so the letters of the alphabet are made from French contortionists in traditional dress. The garden of the month canvases show Frenchwomen in their garden each month, with the correct plants for that type of year. They are dresses in 19th Century garb but in a modern touch, you will find zodiac symbols on their clothing. These are large and expensive designs but very beautiful. You can see them here. Click on "Hand Painted Canvases" at the bottom of the page and scroll through the gardens to find your favorite month.

http://www.isabelspocket.com/

Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow